Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on January 1. That means they can be used and repurposed without permission or payment to copyright holders. The crop … Read more
The playground, originally called Wan Chai Children’s Playground, opened in 1934; it was later renamed after Sir Wilfred Thomas Southorn, Hong Kong’s colonial secretary from 1925 to 1936. A photograph taken around 1950 shows Southorn Playground nestled among rows of tenement houses in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai neighbourhood. Photo: Hong Kong Public Libraries For history … Read more
Southorn was introduced to Woof by her brother, the English literary figure Leonard Woolf, when the two men worked as colonial administrators in what was then British Ceylon. Southorn Playground in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, is linked to colonial Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka). Photo: Jonathan Wong Bella Woof was an accomplished writer in her … Read more
